24 Quotes by Peter Norvig

We didn't want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government.

We thought it was very important to keep our users out of jail.

There is a lot of truth in there, but there's also a lot of crazy stuff. We just don't tell them which is which.

They don't have personally identifiable information but they do have IP addresses that are potentially identifiable with an individual.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don’t know how to approach the problem, you’re not going to get a solution.

Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

My belief is that PowerPoint doesn't kill meetings. People kill meetings.

How can you make informed decisions ... ? The key seems to be to gather experts who are knowledgeable and passionate about the subject matter, and have them cooperatively discuss a series of questions designed to explore the limits of technical feasibility. They must strive to reach the best decision rather than to persuade each other.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.